The Primordial Self stepped forward, its form melding into Zelsys. In the span of seconds, her facial features grew harsher and her musculature more defined. All restrictions lifted, the body had b...
2022-07-23 21:08:53 +0000 UTC
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Red continued, to Zel’s great amusement, by copying her: “However… It seems that we are at an impasse. You cannot truly harm me, and exhausted as I am, I cannot strike you down either.”
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2022-07-21 23:28:16 +0000 UTC
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The smell of iron filled her nose and the taste of it her mouth, mixed with the acidity of her own stomach. The Iron Pills were needed as a catalyst, to help repair and reinforce her right arm and ...
2022-07-20 04:15:39 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Edited the reason why Zel loses grip as it didn't make sense for her bicep to outright fail in this context.
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2022-07-18 00:35:58 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Made a small addition to the chapter at the point just after the Locust Queen summons flying swords.
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2022-07-15 23:23:22 +0000 UTC
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Nowhere in her heart did she intend to actually sit through the auction, even if she was quite confident that Von Wickten was none the wiser as to her intentions with him; the off-chance that he ha...
2022-07-13 21:59:40 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Next chapter will be out Wednesday, on the 13th.
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Anticipating Zef’s cautious demeanor, Zel willed...
2022-07-10 22:03:30 +0000 UTC
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Red struggled to her feet at last, the Subcore’s glimmering form returning to the palm of her hand, absent its octagonal casing. A hideous grimace gripped her features and the cosmic waters under...
2022-07-08 20:49:40 +0000 UTC
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IDOLATRY TRIGRAM
SUBCORE EMBODIMENT
CRIMSON COMMAND: RECREATION OF PAST SELF
“MAKE A SOUND IN THE EAST, THEN STRIKE IN...
2022-07-06 20:11:21 +0000 UTC
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Zel made little effort to hide her accusation, grinning at the Lady in Red.
“To level such baseless accusations at me is courting death. But then…” the horned advisor rebuked. Her tone ...
2022-07-03 21:33:12 +0000 UTC
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Soon they crested the edge of the cliff, and a sprawling cavern awaited them below, its sheer scale best compared to Arches itself; talagmites and stalactites the size of buildings framed the vista...
2022-07-01 22:28:20 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Slightly adjusted things for better flow. This amounts to just continuing the scene from last chapter for a bit longer.
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2022-06-29 19:38:54 +0000 UTC
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Unfortunately, even an average Dragon Knight wasn’t the type to be put down by two relatively minor injuries, a wide plume of flame blasting out of his helmet, the blast swinging his visor open a...
2022-06-27 19:00:30 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Next chapter needs a bit more time, so it'll be out on Monday.
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“I…” he began, only to suddenly ...
2022-06-24 19:06:45 +0000 UTC
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Zel pulled the Broken Butcher from its sheath, her countenance shifting from relaxed, to wild-eyed and wreathed in lightning in the span of only three breaths. Her braids came alive with the lightn...
2022-06-22 19:09:26 +0000 UTC
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Zelsys had decided to subvert the laid-out path in order to ambush Vic’s captors, instead going through the forest itself. As the trio rode through the woods, it quickly became apparent that the ...
2022-06-20 19:23:11 +0000 UTC
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“Just following orders,” the Dragon Knight parroted emotionlessly, taking one of the rib-racks off of the fire, sticking it in a tarnished military mess tin, and tossing it over to Victor such ...
2022-06-18 17:04:08 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Next chapter will be delayed by a day, i.e 18th June
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The invitation was, in reality, just a hand-dra...
2022-06-15 20:58:20 +0000 UTC
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A/N: Sorry for the delay. I had only meant to do some polishing but actually wrote quite a bit before I noticed the time.
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2022-06-13 21:10:05 +0000 UTC
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2022-06-13 20:32:24 +0000 UTC
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“Of course.”
It clicked in his head. Even if drawing Viriditas directly from plants was a high-level technique, it was still one of the most easily accessible essentia in its dis...
2022-06-11 20:20:19 +0000 UTC
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He went running again later, same as the previous days, taking along a few of the ribs from his dinner in Fog Storage. The idea of carrying bones openly on his person was repellant to him; plus, th...
2022-06-09 20:14:42 +0000 UTC
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He had chosen to wear no underlayer, as he had enough understanding of Fog-infused clothing to know that there was no real point. Certain baseline enchantments were universal even on mass-produced ...
2022-06-07 20:20:51 +0000 UTC
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The Teacher opened it up with one hand, scanning the foreword. A moment later, the pamphlet emitted a wisp of Fog as its magickal text began to unravel beneath the Teacher’s gaze. Victor could se...
2022-06-06 02:29:39 +0000 UTC
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Most of the clothes with which he’d come to Arches were now long gone - he’d sold them to keep himself fed when the shortages were particularly bad.
So it was that he dressed himself in h...
2022-06-03 21:34:43 +0000 UTC
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A/N: This chapter contains art that has already been posted, this is for posterity because this is how it will be posted on the public release.
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2022-06-01 19:58:05 +0000 UTC
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Zel drew in deep breath as she ceased Engine Breathing, uttering into the knight captain’s ear with a long exhalation of Fog: “Good.”
Rising to her feet, she rolled her shoulders and ba...
2022-05-30 23:37:44 +0000 UTC
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A paragraph from the second book ran through Victor’s head as he watched the display unfold.
“...Among the least appreciated, yet most potent abilities available to Storm-soul Cultiva...
2022-05-28 18:30:10 +0000 UTC
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There was a shallow circular depression on the right side of his chestplate, a proof mark of some sort stamped on the inside. The armor’s gauntlets were only partial, leaving his scaly fingers an...
2022-05-26 20:02:39 +0000 UTC
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The young man couldn’t quite make out the terse, rapid-fire exchange between her and the two other in-the-flesh pulp characters, though going off the fact Reiner’s face took on the self-same di...
2022-05-24 21:18:45 +0000 UTC
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